Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches

The Hindu Sadhus more than two thousand years ago much as to-day--Muhammadan faqirs much more recent--The Indian ideal--This presents a difficulty to the missionary--Becoming a...

Dependent on the charitable--An incident on the bridge over the Jhelum River--A rebuff on the feast-day--An Indian railway-station--A churlish Muhammadan--Helped by a soldier--A...

Native sport--Tent-pegging--A novel game--A football tournament--A victory for Bannu--Increasing popularity of English games--A tour through India--Football under difficulties--...

Paradoxical--Ideas of honour--Blood-feuds--A sister's revenge--The story of an outlaw--Taken by assault--A jirgah and its unexpected termination--Bluff--An attempt at kidnapping...

Early days--The theological curriculum--Visit to Bannu--A public discussion--New ideas--The forbearance of a native Christian--First acquaintance with Christians--First confessi...

Buried gold--Power of sympathy--A neglected field--A Sadhu converted to Christianity--His experiences--Causes of the development of the ascetic idea in India--More unworthy moti...

Israelitish origin of the Afghans--Jewish practices--Shepherd tradition of the Wazirs--Afridis and their saint--The zyarat or shrine--Graveyards--Custom of burial--Graves of hol...

Description of the Kurram Valley--Shiahs and Sunnis--Favourable reception of Christianity--Independent areas--A candid reply--Proverbial disunion of the Afghans--The two policie...

Different views of educational work--The changed attitude of the Mullahs--His Majesty the Amir and education--Dangers of secular education--The mission hostel--India emphaticall...

No priesthood in Islam--Yet the Mullahs ubiquitous--Their great influence--Theological refinements--The power of a charm--Bazaar disputations--A friend in need--A frontier Pope-...

Their inferior position--Hard labour--On the march--Suffering in silence--A heartless husband--Buying a wife--Punishment for immorality--Patching up an injured wife--A streaky n...

Frontier medical missions--Their value as outposts--Ancient Christianity in Central Asia--Kafiristan: a lost opportunity of the Christian Church--Forcible conversion to Islam--F...

The truce of suffering--A patient's request--Typical cases--A painful journey--The biter bit--The conditions of amputation--"I am a better shot than he is"--The son's life or re...

The cricket captain--A conscientious schoolboy--The Scripture lesson--First awakenings--The Mullah's wrath--The crisis--Standing fire--Schoolboy justice--"Blessed are ye when me...

A farmer and his two sons--Learning the Quran--A village school--At work and at play--The visit of the Inspector--Pros and cons of the mission school from a native standpoint--A...

The medical missionary's advantage--How to know the people--The real India--God's guest-house--The reception of the guest--Oriental customs--Pitfalls for the unwary--The Mullah...

The Pathan warrior--A Christian native officer--A secret mission--A victim of treachery--A soldier convert--Influence of a Christian officer--Crude ideas and strange motives of...

The mountains of Tirah--Work as a miller's labourer--Joins fortune with a thief--A night raid--The value of a disguise--The thief caught--The cattle "lifter"--Murder by proxy--T...

Police posts versus dispensaries--The poisoning scare--A native doctor's influence--Wazir marauders spare the mission hospital--A terrible revenge--The Conolly bed--A political...

I was standing on a pine-clad spur of the Sufed Koh Range, which runs westwards towards Kabul, between the Khaiber Pass on the north and the Kurram Pass on the south. The snow-c...

A merchant caravan in the Tochi Pass--Manak Khan--A sudden onslaught--First aid--Native remedies--A desperate case--A last resort--The Feringi doctor--Setting out on the journey...

An Eastern day begins early. As the first streak of dawn lightens the Eastern sky the slumberers are awakened by the long-drawn-out chant of the Muezzin calling to prayer from a...

A novel inquirer--Attends the bazaar preaching--Attacked by his countrymen--In the police-station--Before the English magistrate--Declares he is a Christian--Arrival of his moth...

A trans-frontier merchant--Left an orphan--Takes service--First contact with Christians--Interest aroused in an unexpected way--Assaulted--Baptism--A dangerous journey--Taken fo...

Number of converts not a reliable estimate of mission work--Spurious converts versus Indigenous Christianity--Latitude should be allowed to the Indian Church--We should introduc...

of the day talking to the native officer and soldiers in charge. In the afternoon we set out again, and marched along the bed of the Kurram River, which we had to ford six times...

Frontier medical missions--Their value as outposts--Ancient Christianity in Central Asia--Kafiristan: a lost opportunity of the Christian Church--Forcible conversion to Islam--F...

The Hindu Sadhus more than two thousand years ago much as to-day--Muhammadan faqirs much more recent--The Indian ideal--This presents a difficulty to the missionary--Becoming a...

Number of converts not a reliable estimate of mission work--Spurious converts versus indigenous Christianity--Latitude should be allowed to the Indian Church--We should introduc...

Dependent on the charitable--An incident on the bridge over the Jhelum River--A rebuff on the feast-day--An Indian railway-station--A churlish Muhammadan--Helped by a soldier--A...

Buried gold--Power of sympathy--A neglected field--A Sadhu converted to Christianity--His experiences--Causes of the development of the ascetic idea in India--More unworthy moti...

Different views of educational work--The changed attitude of the Mullahs--His Majesty the Amir and education--Dangers of secular education--The mission hostel--India emphaticall...

The mountains of Tirah--Work as a miller's labourer--Joins fortune with a thief--A night raid--The value of a disguise--The thief caught--The cattle "lifter"--Murder by proxy--T...

The Pathan warrior--A Christian native officer--A secret mission--A victim of treachery--A soldier convert--Influence of a Christian officer--Crude ideas and strange motives of...

Description of the Kurram Valley--Shiahs and Sunnis--Favourable reception of Christianity--Independent areas--A candid reply--Proverbial disunion of the Afghans--The two policie...

The truce of suffering--A patient's request--Typical cases--A painful journey--The biter bit--The condition of amputation--"I am a better shot than he is"--The son's life or rev...

Early days--The theological curriculum--Visit to Bannu--A public discussion--New ideas--The forbearance of a native Christian--First acquaintance with Christians--First confessi...

A farmer and his two sons--Learning the Quran--A village school--At work and at play--The visit of the Inspector--Pros and cons of the mission school from a native standpoint--A...

A novel inquirer--Attends the bazaar preaching--Attacked by his countrymen--In the police-station--Before the English magistrate--Declares he is a Christian--Arrival of his moth...

The medical missionary's advantage--How to know the people--The real India--God's guest-house--The reception of the guest--Oriental customs--Pitfalls for the unwary--The Mullah...

A trans-frontier merchant--Left an orphan--Takes service--First contact with Christians--Interest aroused in an unexpected way--Assaulted--Baptism--A dangerous journey--Taken fo...

No priesthood in Islam--Yet the Mullahs ubiquitous--Their great influence--Theological refinements--The power of a charm--Bazaar disputations--A friend in need--A frontier Pope-...

Israelitish origin of the Afghans--Jewish practices--Shepherd tradition of the Wazirs--Afridis and their saint--The zyarat, or shrine--Graveyards--Custom of burial--Graves of ho...

Their inferior position--Hard labour--On the march--Suffering in silence--A heartless husband--Buying a wife--Punishment for immorality--Patching up an injured wife--A streaky n...

Native sport--Tent-pegging--A novel game--A football tournament--A victory for Bannu--Increasing popularity of English games--A tour through India--Football under difficulties--...

Police posts versus dispensaries--The poisoning scare--A native doctor's influence--Wazir marauders spare the mission hospital--A terrible revenge--The Conolly bed--A political...

Paradoxical--Ideas of honour--Blood-feuds--A sister's revenge--The story of an outlaw--Taken by assault--A jirgah and its unexpected termination--Bluff--An attempt at kidnapping...

The cricket captain--A conscientious schoolboy--The Scripture lesson--First awakenings--The Mullah's wrath--The crisis--Standing fire--Schoolboy justice--"Blessed are ye when me...

A merchant caravan in the Tochi Pass--Manak Khan--A sudden onslaught--First aid--Native remedies--A desperate case--A last resort--The Feringi doctor--Setting out on the journey...